Augustine | There is no virtue without a miracle.
~ 26-27 March 1951 ~ “Went on reading St. Augustine. Interested to note that he left Carthage, where he had been teaching, to go to Rome because in Carthage his students were so undisciplined (‘the license of the students is gross, and beyond all measure’). Convinced more than ever that St. Augustine, and those like him, alone have found the answer to life, which is to ‘slaughter our self-conceits like birds, the curiosities by which we voyage through the secret ways of the abyss like the fish of the sea, our carnal lusts like the beasts of the field’ in order...
read moreResolved…To Repent Continually
From Jonathan Edwards’s “Resolutions“: 3. Resolved, if ever I shall fall and grow dull, so as to neglect to keep any part of these Resolutions, to repent of all I can remember, when I come to myself...
read moreResolved…to continually dream up ways to advance the glory of God
From Jonathan Edwards’s “Resolutions“: 2. Resolved, to be continually endeavoring to find out some new invention and contrivance to promote the aforementioned...
read moreResolved…To Do Everything for God’s Glory and My Good
From Jonathan Edwards’s “Resolutions“: Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God’s help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ’s sake. Remember to read over these Resolutions once a week. 1. Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriads of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think...
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